When I was learning to call I read about diagramming dances (I completely forget where). For an equal turn dance you write the dancers as "l" and "r" for the ones and "-" for the twos. The top of the hall is the top of the page. You mark these down at each step through the dance:
r l - - A1 (16) Neighbor balance and Swing - - r l A2 (8) Ravens chain - r - l A2 (8) Promenade across l - r - etc. I usually find I can keep things clear enough that I can track what a given call will do to the dancers, and having all the stages written down is helpful for looking back. Jeff On Sun, Feb 9, 2020 at 3:21 PM Alan J Rosenthal via Contra Callers < [email protected]> wrote: > I use chess pieces. It's not all that different to what you are doing with > magnets except that I think it meets the objectives you state in your > message. > > Partners are same pieces of a different colour (e.g. a pawn's partner is > a pawn, etc, and you only use one pair of pawns). You can use black to > represent Larks etc (or the other way around obviously). Couples are > arranged in some meaningful order to you, such as by the value of the > chess piece or by height. > > Then after you move them all around for a while, you can still tell who's > who. > > Actually I bought four different colours of chess pieces from > https://www.chesshouse.com (five years ago, so things there might have > changed). I've never used them to play chess. (I had in mind to make a > youtube video about how some dance progressions work, which I may or may > not manage to do some day. But I've used them to work out dances a lot.) > > regards, > ajr, dancing in and near Toronto, Canada > _______________________________________________ > Contra Callers mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >
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